Singapore, 4th May.
'A private telegram to Singapore, received last night, says that serious riots have occurred in Calcutta, no doubt owing to the institution of plague sanitary measures, and that the military had been called out to suppress disorder.
Native merchants dealing with Calcutta, have also received telegrams not to ship goods thither, the presumption being that the plague and riots are preventing the working of ships.
This, of course, will considerably affect the large trade atried on between India, the Straits, and China, particularly by. the Apear boats and the Indo-China line. Those who know Calcutta well are filled with the gravest alarm at the appearance of the plague there. With a population of close on a million inhabitants, enormous tenement houses, and an ignorant population, the work involved in fighting the plague will be incredible.—Singapore Free Press.
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